Lecture Notes # 1
Reconstruction
I. War time activities
A. U.S. Government and private organizations deal with emancipation during the
war
By 1863, U.S. government forced to deal with emancipation-as Union armies
occupied more and more of the South, thou

Lecture Notes # 4
Frontier West and New South
I. The West
Settling the West
o New farms, new markets
Railroads change economy
New farm implements
Steel tipped plow
McCormick reapers
o Community life
Lone individualism mostly a myth
People settled m

Lecture # 8
A New Deal for a Depressed Country
I. New Deal Takes Shape
FDR takes office
o At first glance, FDR seemed to have little in common with most
Americans-the former governor of N.Y. came from privileged upper
class background, could trace roots

Lecture # 11
Struggles for Equality
I. Civil Rights Movement
Differing views of what causes racism develop following WWII
o one viewpoint argued that racism was economic and class based-could
only be cured through economic equality
o the other group view

Lecture 2: The Birth of Modern America
Economic Developments
I. Introduction-From "island communities" to corporate liberalism
Societies in flux
o American society, like those of other nations, constantly in flux,
continuously changing
o Changes that beg

Lecture Outline # 10
The Search for Consensus and Conformity
I. The Affluent Society
Converting the economy
o Economy begins shifting from wartime to peacetime production
following war, many concerned with possibility of postwar
depression
fears prove

Lecture # 12
The 1960s
I. A New Frontier
Election of 1960
o Richard Nixon as Republican candidate
Nixon VP under Eisenhower
also former congressman, best known for role in Alger Hiss case
Nixon ultimate political animal
o John F. Kennedy as Democratic

Lecture Notes # 5
Searching for Order
I. Politics from 1870s to 1890s
Political culture
o Following the Civil War, politics took on air of parades and pageantry
these events provided excitement and entertainment to the masses
political rituals helped v